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The year 1974 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.
New books
- Richard Adams - Shardik
- Kingsley Amis - Ending Up
- Peter Benchley - Jaws
- Hal Bennett - Wait Until the Evening
- Heinrich Böll - The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
- Anthony Burgess - The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End
- Robert A. Caro - The Power Broker
- Robert Cormier - The Chocolate War
- Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
- Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Lawrence Durrell - Monsieur
- Frederick Forsyth - The Dogs of War
- John Fowles - The Ebony Tower
- Donald Goines - Crime Partners
- John Hawkes - Death Sleep
- Joseph Heller - Something Happened
- Erica Jong - Fear of Flying
- Anna Kavan - Let Me Alone
- Stephen King - Carrie
- Margaret Laurence - The Diviners
- John le Carré - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
- Madeleine L'Engle - A Wind in the Door
- H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth - The Watchers Out of Time and Others
- Robert Ludlum - The Cry of the Halidon
- Brian Lumley - Beneath the Moors
- Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Sorcerers and Spells
- James A. Michener - Centennial
- Vladimir Nabokov - Look at the Harlequins!
- Edith Pargeter - Sunrise in the West (first in the "Brothers of Gwynedd" quartet)
- Robert B. Parker - God Save the Child
- Ellen Raskin - Figgs & Phantoms
- Ishmael Reed - The Last Days of Louisiana Red
- Harold Robbins - The Pirate
- Leonardo Sciascia - Todo modo
- Tom Sharpe - Porterhouse Blue
- Sidney Sheldon - The Other Side of Midnight
- Studs Terkel - Working
- Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman - Collected Ghost Stories
New drama
- Michael Cook - Jacob's Wake
- Dario Fo - Can't Pay? Won't Pay!
- Paavo Haavikko - The Knight
- Ira Levin - Veronica's Room
- Harold Pinter - No Man's Land
- Tom Stoppard - Travesties
New poetry
- Duncan Bush, Tony Curtis, Nigel Jenkins - Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets
Non-fiction
- Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President's Men
- Vincent Bugliosi - Helter Skelter
- Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol 3: Red River to Appomattox
- Jonathan Raban - Soft City
- Lewis Thomas – The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
- Joseph Wambaugh - The Onion Field
Births
- April 13 — K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (d. 2005)
- November 4 — Carlos Be, Spanish playwright
- date unknown - Owen Sheers, poet
Deaths
- January 29 - H. E. Bates, novelist
- March 24 - Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist
- May 13 - Arthur J. Burks, American writer
- June 2 - Tom Kristensen, novelist and poet
- June 9 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Nobel Prize-winning novelist
- July 4 - Georgette Heyer, author
- September 21 - Jacqueline Susann, best-selling novelist
- October 4 - Anne Sexton, poet
- December 14 - Walter Lippmann, writer
- date unknown - David Jones, artist and poet
Awards
Canada
- See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
- Prix Goncourt: Pascal Lainé, La Dentellière
- Prix Médicis French: Porporino ou les Mystèrs de Naples
- Prix Médicis International: Julio Cortázar, Libro de Manuel
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
- Cholmondeley Award: D.J. Enright, Vernon Scannell, Alasdair Maclean
- Eric Gregory Award: Duncan Forbes, Roger Garfitt, Robin Hamilton, Frank Ormsby, Penelope Shuttle
- Newdigate prize: Alan Hollinghurst
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Wain, Samuel Johnson
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ted Hughes
United States
- Frost Medal: John Hall Wheelock
- Hugo Award: Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
- Nebula Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, The Dolphin
Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Luis Gasulla, Culminación de Montoya
- Viareggio Prize: Clotilde Marghieri, Amati enigmi
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